Are you seeing “This expired post is no longer available” in some of the article titles?

I did a lit­tle main­te­nance on this site today. A few of my new stu­dents asked if my posts from the spring term would help them on their fall 2007 assignments.

My answer: “not really”. I tend to change my assign­ments around each term to keep the con­tent cur­rent, and to include sug­ges­tions from stu­dents in my pre­vi­ous courses.

I’ll con­tinue post­ing sug­ges­tions dur­ing the cur­rent term, but I’ve restricted access to many of most of these old posts to keep the con­fu­sion to a min­i­mum. Stu­dents usu­ally don’t get access to a pre­vi­ous semester’s dis­cus­sions in WebCT, after all.

As I reviewed my blog, I counted 57 posts that were spe­cific to the spring term and no longer relevant.

In some of these posts, I had pub­lished sug­ges­tions or guid­ance that was spe­cific to an assign­ment. Of course, I’ll keep doing this dur­ing the cur­rent semes­ter.
In some cases, these posts were progress reports on my grad­ing. Those progress reports aren’t rel­e­vant for my cur­rent courses.

A few of the posts were agenda’s for a face-to-face sec­tion I taught last term. Both of my sec­tions are online this term.

I didn’t want to delete these old posts, how­ever. Every now and then, I show col­leagues what I’ve been doing in my course.

So, if you’re a stu­dent who’s search­ing through the site for infor­ma­tion about my spring 2007 courses, you might encounter arti­cle titles that look like this screen shot:

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